The purpose of Making National Museums (NaMu) is to develop the  tools, concepts and organisational resources necessary for  investigating and comparing the major public structure of National  Museums, as created historically and responding to contemporary challenges of globalisation, European integration, and new media.What are the forces and values of traditional national display in dealing with challenges to national, cultural and political discourse? This will be achieved by a series of conferences providing a venue for younger scholars and eminent researcher to gather and develop the multi-disciplinary competence necessary to understand and compare the dynamics of national museums in a framework of a broadly understood historical culture and identity politics

Setting the Frames was the first workshop in a series of six  international conferences. The papers presented are published in the proceedings of LiU E-press.

Financed by

The European Uninon

Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses

Making National Museums, NaMu

Contract number (MSCF-CT-2006-046067)

Monday 26 February

Introduction

22:1
Peter Aronsson
Making National Museums: Comparing Institutional Arrangements, Narrative Scope and Cultural Integration
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:2
Arne Bugge Amundsen
What Do National Museums DO? Three Papers, One Commentary
[Abstract and fulltext]

Workshop 1. Comparative strategies
Chair: Simon Knell

22:3
Ellinoor Bergvelt, Debora Meijers, Lieske Tibbe and Elsa van Wezel
National Museums and National Identity Seen from an International and Comparative Perspective, c. 1760–1918
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:4
Ellinoor Bergvelt
Are National Museums of Protestant Nations Different? The Process of Modernizing 19th-Century National Art Museums in the Netherlands and in Great Britain 1800–1855
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:5
Stuart Burch 
Museum Landscapes : Zoning in on A Complex Cultural Field
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Stefan Berger

Workshop 2. Nationalisms with and without a State
Chair: Arne Bugge Amundsen

22:6
Anna Chrusciel
Re-thinking the Remembrance of the Holocaust in German National Museums and Memorials as Agents for Positive Social Change?
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:7
Christine Braunersreuther
“Where Race Matters”
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:8
Linda Burnett Andrew G. Newby
‘Unionist Nationalism’ and the National Museum of Scotland, c. 1847–1866
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Gudmundur Hálfdanarson

Tuesday 27 February

Workshop 3. Colonial and Post-Colonial Transfers
Chair: Peter Aronsson

22:9
Kristy Phillips
The National Museum of India : A Museum to and of the “Nation”
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Tony Bennett

Workshop 4: Visualising the past
Chair: Kerstin Smeds

22:10
Secil Yilmaz and V. Safak Uysal
MiniaTürk: Culture, History and Memory in Turkey in Post-1980
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:11
Eva Insulander
The Exhibition as a Multimodal Pedagogical Text
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Simon Knell

Workshop 5: The meaning of Art
Chair: Karin Becker

22:12
Laila Skjøthaug
The Visibility Zone
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:13
Henrik Holm
National Museums Becoming Woman
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Esther Shalev-Gerz

Workshop 6: Trajectories
Chair: Svante Beckman

22:14
Johannes Siapkas and Lena Sjögren
Ancient Sculptures and National Museums : Universal and Local Claims of Antiquity
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:15
Jennifer Carter
New Nation, New History : Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments Français (1795–1816)
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:16
Iro Katsariadou and Katerina Billouri
Representing Byzantium: The Narratives of the Byzantine Past in Greek National Museums
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Alexandra Bounia

Wednesday 28 February

Workshop 7: Consuming the museum
Chair: Alexandra Bounia

22:17
Mette Houlberg Rung
The Art Museum as a Platform for Self-formation
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:18
Sarah Hughes
Museum Publishing: Representing the Museum
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:19
Palmyre Pierroux
Museology and the Problem of Interiority
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Kerstin Smeds

Workshop 8. In and out of the Nation
Chair: Gudmundur Hálfdanarson

22:20
Barbara Wenk
How to Explore the Nations within Europe through National Museums as Museums for Contemporary Issues
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:21
Ellen Chapman
What Makes a Museum National? National Identities at Community Museums
[Abstract and fulltext]

22:22
Cecilia Axelsson
Exploring the Museum – a Comprehensive Approach
[Abstract and fulltext]

Commentator: Arne Bugge Amundsen

Supplement after the conference

Nationalism with and without a state

22:23
Aina Aske
Manor Houses, Mansions and the Norwegian National Museum Concept. Commemorations of ‘the 400-year Night’
[Abstract and fulltext]